Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC : New ebuild function pkg_create for creating corespondent sorce tarball

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:37:43 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:25:02 +0300
> Alin Năstac <mrness@g.o> wrote:
>
> > I was asked to discuss here a portage enhancement proposed by me
> > [1].
> >
> > Basically I need a pkg_create() that will be executed only in the
> > context of the upcoming "ebuild ${PF}.ebuild create" command.
> >
> > The package where I need it is app-mobilephone/bitpim. The upstream
> > doesn't offer a source tarball, so I need to construct it myself
> > from their svn repository. Up till recently, I used some hackery in
> > pkg_setup() to create it
> > (see the ebuild), but now "ebuild $PF.ebuild setup" verify the
> > digest before running pkg_setup().
> >
> > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185567
>
> Two questions:
> - are there more packages that could benefit from this?
> - is there a particular reason this has to be integrated into the
> ebuild and should not be handled by an ordinary script?

Sure. Every package with an unversioned upstream tarball that we're
forced to mirror a reversioned tarball of, or can't mirror at all.

It makes a lot of sense to put this sort of package maintenance and
creation information in the same place as the package.

But to do it right, we might need a new type of dependency. This will
require more research into whether any packages would have a use for it.

Thanks,
Donnie